FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register

Tennessee motor carriers

• 23,282Registered carriers
• 177,498Inspections on file
• 5,986Reportable crashes
• 167Fatal crashes
• 38,383Inspections with an out-of-service order
• 5,758Hazardous materials inspections
• 154Hazmat carriers
• 389Passenger carriers

The census registers 23,282 motor carriers in Tennessee, 154 of them carrying hazardous materials and 389 of them carrying passengers. Inspections recorded against carriers here number 177,498, 38,383 of which ended in an out-of-service order, and 5,986 reportable crashes, 167 of them fatal, are on file.

By category

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 561 · 6 of 51 jurisdictions
• Crash Indicator 5,986 · 14 of 51 jurisdictions
• Driver Fitness 7,471 · 13 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 532 · 20 of 51 jurisdictions
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 13,366 · 15 of 51 jurisdictions
• Unsafe Driving 20,057 · 8 of 51 jurisdictions
• Vehicle Maintenance 76,167 · 16 of 51 jurisdictions

Carriers by fleet size in Tennessee

• 1 power unit 12,172
• 2 to 5 power units 7,102
• 6 to 20 power units 2,082
• 21 to 100 power units 640
• 101 to 1,000 power units 144
• 1,000 or more power units 30

Carriers by the work they do

• Interstate 9,882
• Intrastate, hazardous materials 12,806
• Intrastate, non-hazardous 594

Towns the carriers are based in

Memphis (2,406) · Nashville (1,729) · Knoxville (1,048) · Chattanooga (787) · Murfreesboro (680) · Antioch (523) · Clarksville (504) · Cordova (383) · Cleveland (298) · Lebanon (285) · Jackson (270) · Smyrna (268) · Johnson City (222) · Maryville (220) · Franklin (212) · Crossville (197) · Kingsport (196) · La Vergne (192) · Columbia (181) · Gallatin (179) · Cookeville (169) · Madison (168) · Springfield (160) · Sevierville (156) · Mount Juliet (152)

Unsafe Driving is the category a broker is most often shown first. Every jurisdiction →

Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.

Counts from FMCSA SMS input files on data.transportation.gov: kjg3-diqy (Motor Carrier Census, 2,122,441 rows), rbkj-cgst (Inspection, 5,834,148), 8mt8-2mdr (Violation, 6,808,260), 4wxs-vbns (Crash, 255,582), p2mt-9ige (Out of Service Orders, 399,600); SoQL aggregates fetched 2026-09-16. A category’s rank is the register’s own count for this jurisdiction set against the same count for the other jurisdictions on the desk, and the town names are the census’s own spelling.